{"product_id":"9780553385649","title":"The Love We Share without Knowing","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut \u003cb\u003eOne for Sorrow \u003c\/b\u003eexplores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate. \u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection—uncovering the love we share without knowing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExquisitely perceptive and deeply affecting, Barzak’s artful storytelling deftly illuminates the inner lives of those attempting to find—or lose—themselves in an often incomprehensible world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013244862704,"sku":"9780553385649","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780553385649_p0.jpg?v=1763717480","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780553385649","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}